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Developing Assessment Performance Indicators
The goal of assessment is to judge how well a student has learned. This information has a range of uses but is mainly used to improve student learning or for the accreditation of student performance. This chapter is the first attempt to develop a val...
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Practices That Jeopardize Bona Fide Student Assessment
Student assessment is the means by which teachers—the directors of the learning experience—appraise the success of their lessons on students—the product of the instruction. Teachers at every level of instruction realize the importance of fair, ...
Book Chapter
Varied Assessment: A Brief Introduction
Although often seen as a means for evaluation, assessment is first and foremost an instructional tool. Use of multiple assessment strategies can provide students with diverse feedback, allowing them to view the subject and their understanding of it f...
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Assessments That Assist in Motivating Students
Assessments are one of the few ways students can be reached individually. You can directly interact with each student. If used in thoughtful ways, assessments can motivate students to engage in class and to study on their own. In this chapter, the au...
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Means of Linking Research to Practice in Organizing a Course on Student Assessment
Accurate assessment of student achievement is an important requirement of educators. The author, in his role as professor in Science Education at the University of Calgary, taught an assessment course for master's students and student teachers. The ...
Book Chapter
Writing/Using Multiple-Choice Questions to Assess Higher-Order Thinking
Most graduate entrance exams (including the GRE, MCAT, and DAT) are based on multiple-choice questions. Many later exams, such as the medical board exams, are also multiple choice. Therefore, it is important to make sure that students are prepared fo...
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Tips on Classroom Assessment: How to Teach Our Students to Take Multiple-Choice Exams
Multiple-choice exams are one of the few assessment strategies available for large-lecture sections of students. The author teaches students who are recently out of high school and realizes that they need to be "taught" certain skills for taking mult...
Book Chapter
Better Multiple-Choice Assessments
Multiple-choice questions have an important place in the assessment of student learning and constructed correctly, can provide instructors and students alike with valuable insight to student learning. This chapter is devoted to helping readers get th...
Book Chapter
Assessment of Students' Learning Through the Creation of Scientific Posters
Assessment of student knowledge takes many forms. This chapter features the presentation of scientific posters—one assessment used successfully in upper-division biology courses. The posters, on topics chosen by the students in consultation with co...
Journal Article
In the process of discovering the extraordinary creature commonly known as a red wiggler worm—or as scientists would identify it, Eisenia fetida, fifth-grade students recycled their school lunch leftovers, made predictions about worm behavior in co...
Journal Article
Scope on Safety: Avoiding the burn
A major cause of injuries in middle and high school science laboratories can be summarized by one word—heat. Heated liquids, glassware, and hot plates are the most common source of student burns in the lab. Training—the key to preventing most bur...
NSTA Press Book
College Science Teachers Guide to Assessment
What is assessment? How do you assess your students’ progress? How do they assess themselves and their peers? How do you assess the effectiveness of your own teaching? College Science Teachers Guide to Assessment provides busy professors with...
Journal Article
The Early Years: Bring On Spring—Planting Peas
Growing peas helps children who grow food at home make a connection between school and home by sharing their experience, and those who have never seen a field of crops make a connection between soil, weather, and food production by growing a trial cr...
Journal Article
Editor’s Roundtable: We’ve come a long way from the four elements
As our technology advanced, so has the sophistication of our classification systems. Over time, we’ve moved from the ancient Greeks’ four elements to the periodic table, and from classifying animals by the way they move to comparisons of their DN...